New Hampshire head coach Russell Domingo says if his side start well in the County Championship then “anything is possible” this coming season. <\/p>\n
The former South Africa and Bangladesh head coach replaced Adi Birrell who left at the end of last season after a seven-year spell at the Utilita Bowl. <\/p>\n
Hampshire have only won the County Championship twice in their history, and last lifted the title in 1973. <\/p>\n
Domingo is hoping that he can be the man to come in and change their fortunes, beginning with a game against Essex on Friday.<\/p>\n
“If you can start a campaign really well, anything’s possible,” the 51-year-old told BBC South Today.<\/p>\n
“I know there’s a long history of this county having not won a County Championship but at some stage it’s going to change and at some stage it’s going to happen.<\/p>\n
“We don’t want to put too much stress and pressure on the team, we want to focus on the style of cricket we play and the way we go about our business.<\/p>\n
“But who knows, maybe three or four weeks to go we’re sort of in the reckoning and can then start talk about winning that Championship but there’s a lot of cricket still to be played before we get there.”<\/p>\n
Domingo, who also coaches South African side Lions, was previously head coach of South Africa for five years from 2012.<\/p>\n
He signed a two-year-deal at Hampshire across all formats in December and is supported by former Scotland head coach Shane Burger as bowling coach and ex-club captain Jimmy Adams who remains batting coach.<\/p>\n
As well as his close relationship with Birrell, Domingo says that part of his decision to join Hampshire was helped by his love of English football. <\/p>\n
“I’m a big fan of the English Premier League where there are five big clubs,” he said in the BBC Radio Solent fan forum.<\/p>\n
“In English county cricket, Hampshire is one of the big five and when you get an opportunity to coach at a club like this it’s hard to not look at it seriously.<\/p>\n
“I think that any coach that is worth his salt at some stage wants to coach at county level, it’s a great opportunity for me and something I’m really looking forward to doing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Hampshire head coach Russell Domingo says if his side start well in the County Championship then “anything…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-507773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}